When John Sharpless Lightbrown was born on 1 January 1838, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Lightbown, was 24 and his mother, Margaret Ingham, was 19. He married Sara Ann Tegardine on 12 March 1870, in United States. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Hyde Park Township, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 11 May 1903, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
English: nickname from Middle English liht ‘light’ (Old English lēoht) + bond(e) ‘unfree tenant, serf’ ( see Bond ), the sense of liht here being perhaps ‘cheerful’ or ‘active’ ( compare Lightbody ).
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